Biology and Human Behavior, The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition – Robert Sapolsky

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Summary

• When are we responsible for our own actions, and when are we in the grip of biological forces beyond our control?

• This intriguing question is the scientific province of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave—from the people we fall in love with, to the intensity of our spiritual lives, to the degree of our aggressive impulses.

• In short, it is the study of how our brains make us the individuals that we are.

• Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition, is an interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject.

• In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal.